One of the gang takes a novel from a delivery boy and rips it up but a little while later he's got it back intact.
Jock and Snowey free Dick from the cell and are told to return to the cottage and warn Cavendish then to meet him, Dick, at the warehouse. The scene moves briefly to the villains then to the cottage and Dick's there.
Dick's captured, put in a suit of armour, apart from the helmet, and secured in an alcove. The villain puts the helmet on Dick's head and leaves. Above Dick's head is a shelf of bottles one of which is acid and while he's aware of the shelf he doesn't know about the bottles. His left hand is tied to a pike shaft the head of which is resting on the shelf with it's shadow cast on the wall except there is no light to cause the shadow. Dick shakes the pike which knocks a bottle over which doesn't have a top on and contains acid which drips down onto the rope around his right wrist and he gets free.